Marxist party to commence month-long grassroots level campaign in Sri Lanka

January 29, 2013

Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) is to commence an island wide campaign at grass root level to create awareness on the current political situation and the crises faced by the country.

The month long campaign is to commence on February 2nd with the participation of all JVP leaders.

JVP Propaganda Secretary and parliamentarian Vijitha Herath said that the people are unaware of the serious implications faced by the country following the impeachment of the Chief Justice.

He emphasized that people have to be informed of the current situation in the country in order to build a broad people’s movement to fight for democracy and human rights in the country.

According to Herath, most of the meetings would be organized at homes in villages in order to build a personal rapport with the people.

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"We have always distinguished the social kernel from the political form of bourgeois democracy; we have always revealed the hard kernel of social inequality and lack of freedom hidden under the sweet shell of formal equality and freedom – not in order to reject the latter but to spur the working class into not being satisfied with the shell, but rather, by conquering political power, to create a socialist democracy to replace bourgeois democracy – not to eliminate democracy altogether."

"But socialist democracy is not something which begins only in the promised land, after the foundations of socialist economy are created; it does not come as some sort of Christmas present for the worthy people who, in the interim, have loyally supported a handful of socialist dictators. Socialist democracy begins simultaneously with the beginnings of the destruction of class rule and of the construction of socialism. It begins at the very moment of the seizure of power by the socialist party. It is the same thing as the dictatorship of the proletariat. Yes, dictatorship! "

"But this dictatorship consists in the manner of applying democracy, not in its elimination, but in energetic, resolute attacks upon the well-entrenched rights and economic relationships of bourgeois society, without which a socialist transformation cannot be accomplished. But this dictatorship must be the work of the class and not of a little leading minority in the name of the class – that is, it must proceed step by step out of the active participation of the masses; it must be under their direct influence, subjected to the control of complete public activity; it must arise out of the growing political training of the mass of the people."

Rosa Luxemburg